Exam 2 Flashcards
How long does it take for muscle to be converted to meat
up to 24 hours
During and after slaughter process, what is the body trying to maintain
homoeostasis
What is homeostasis controlled by?
Nervous and endocrine system
What is immobilization?
The animal is rendered unconscious due to the disruption of nervous system
What are the 3 methods for immobilization
Mechanical
Electrical
Chemical
What is exsanguination?
Massive bleeding, severe compromise homeostasis
What happens to blood pressure during exsanguination
Goes down
What happens when blood pressure goes down? (3 things)
- Heart pumps faster
- Blood vessels in limbs constrict to increase blood pressure
- Forces blood to vital organs
What is system is loss during exsanguination?
Circulatory system
What happens when circulatory system is loss?
- Loss of transport system, nothing gets to/from the muscles
- Build up of lactic acid
The muscle is shift from what type of metabolism to what type of metabolism
Aerobic metabolism to Anaerobic metabolism
What happens during the metabolism shift
- Small stores of oxygen is lost quickly
- Aerobic metabolism fails
What happens to pH during muscle to meat
Declines causing the build of lactic acid
What is the most important changes in meat quality?
pH
What happens during lost temperature control?
Heat production of the muscle increases
What happens when heat production of the muscles increases
No circulatory system
Heat from body shutdown
Heat from metabolism causes muscle temp to go up
What happens during rigor mortis? (3)
- Stiffening of the muscles
- Permanent actin/myosin cross bridging
- Can’t break without ATP
What happens when rigor mortis is interrupted
Pre rigor chilling
What happens during Pre rigor chilling
Muscle is frozen before rigor
What happens when muscle is thawed?
Massive Ca+ dump
Short sarcomere equals what?
Tough meat
What is PSE
Pale, Soft and Exudative
What causes PSE in Biochemical stand point
Acute stress
What causes acute stress
- Within hours of slaughter
- Cause temp and pH variations from normal
What animal are common for PSE
Pork and Turkey - white muscle fiber
PSE in a metabolism standpoint prior to slaughter
- Increase heart rate and temperature
- ATP depleted
- Switch to anaerobic metabolism
What happens when we switch to anaerobic metabolism
Build up of lactic acid
PSE in a metabolism standpoint after slaughter
- Increase muscle temperature and lactic acid
- Decrease in pH due to the lactic acid
- Accelerated muscle to meat
What is the result of PSE
- Increase temp + Rapid decline in pH
- Denatured
- Myogloin gets washed away
- Lose structural integrity
What does it mean to denature
Change in shape, causing purge
What is purge
Pale color
What happens when myoglobin gets washed away
increase purge = pale color meat
What does it mean to lose structural intergrity
becomes soft
what does PSE affect
-pH
- shift in metabolism
- temperature
- rigor mortis
PSE quality problems
- Visual
- Juiciness
- Tenderness
- Processing
PSE Visual
Looks bad and purge in package
PSE Juciness
Very dry to due the lack of water
PSE Tenderness
Little change, but linked to juiciness
PSE Processing
Doesn’t hold ingredients, especially water
What is DC and DFD
DC = Dark Cutter
DFD = Dark, Firm and Dry
What happens to pH during DC
slow pH
What is causes DC
chronic stress
What is depleted in DC
glycogen
post harvest in DC
- Reduce lactic acid
- denaturation resulting increase water binding
DC result
- Dark color due to increase water binding and Mb
- Less denaturation = firm
- Increase water binding
DC impact only what?
pH
Is there USDA grade for Dark Cutter
No
DC quality problem
- Visual
- Juiciness
- Tenderness
- Flavor
- Processing
DC Visual problem
Too dark in color
DC Juiciness problem
High juiciness
DC Tenderness
Little Change
DC Flavor
Off flavor
DC Processing (Quality)
Quality - holds water very well
DC Processing (Safety)
Higher water activity for micro growth
Impact of Meat QUANTITY
- Bruises and Broken bones
What is Bruising and Broken Bones
Breaking of capillaries and bones
What causes Bruising and Broken Bones
- Overfilling transportation
- Poor Handling
- Poor plant design
How do we avoid meat quality and quantity problems
Proper facilities
Proper handling
Genetic Selections
Facilities Common Problems
Noice, Slippery floor, Steep ramp
Handling Common Problems
- Poor trained employees
- Electric prodding
- Reproductive cycles
What is meat color
Visual Appeal
Palatability
What is the most important at purchase
Meat color
What are the 2 proteins for Meat Color
Myoglobin (more work)
Hemoglobin
What causes in difference in color
- Species
- sex
- Muscle location
- age
What is the function of myoglobin
Oxygen transport
2 parts of myoglobin
Globin and Heme Ring
What is heme ring
6th ligand determines color
What color is DeOxyMB
purple
What color is OxyMb
Red
What color is MetMb
Brown
What happens if O2 is added to DeOxyMb
OxyMb
What happens if OxyMB is oxidized
MetMb
What is DeOxyMb
Nothing bound at 6th ligand
What is OxyMb
O2 bound at 6th ligand
What is MetMb?
H2O bound at 6th ligand
What is the main source of meat
Iron
What causes oxidation
- Oxygen - prolonged exposure
- Light
- Heat
- Ingredients - Pro-oxidant
Palability
- Desirable taste and texture properties
4 things in Palatability
Tenderness
Juiciness
Flavor (taste and aroma)
Appearance
What are the major things that impact Tenderness
Connective tissue (collagen)
Sarcomere length
Proteolytic enzymes (aging)
Tenderness - Connective Tissues
- Collagen and Elastin content
Collegen relate to Tenderness
Amount and Chemical Crosslinking
What causes an impact on Connective Tissues
Animal age
Muscle location
Sex
Tenderness - Sarcomere Length
Increase length = increase tenderness
Tenderness - Proteolytic Enzymes
- Degrade proteins postmortem
What is Calpain
2 calcium dependent enzymes
- m calpain and u calpain
What is the inhibitor of Calpain
Calpastatin
Tenderness - marbling
More related to juiciness and flavor than tenderness
What is Gustatory
Taste
What is olfactory
smell
What is the meat cookery objective
Safety and Improve palability
What is the 2 types of cookery
High temp and low temp
What is the temp for high temp cooking
> 250
What are the example of high temp cookery
Broil
Grill
Fry
What is the tenderness of high temp
tougher
What is the Flavor of high temp
caramelizes sugars